@Elías *******

A visa run is where you go to another country and apply for a visa at a Thai embassy or consulate, while a border bounce is where you set foot in the other country and then come back to Thailand to get a visa exemption on arrival. In the first case you have an actual visa in your passport; in the second case, you don't.

No.

@Mark **********

TTB is also 30k.

@Dennis *********

Exactly - the passport speaks for itself. And countries spend millions developing security features to prevent counterfeiting of passports...and zero on developing secure letters. And yet that seems to be too complex of a concept for certain banks to understand 🤷

It doesn't say MOP, it says ต่อ (extension) page 16. On the extension it says จาก (from) page 15. Those are just notes to link the entry stamp and the extension.

@Sean *****************

Correct, it's only for earned income, so it doesn't provide any benefit to a retiree who isn't working.

@Dca ****

Right, my understanding is that SSI cuts off after one month outside the US.

You can do it on arrival, but you'll get through a bit more quickly if you do it in advance - the website will generate a QR code for them to scan at the health inspection station.

@Gary *********

Yes. I know nothing about CRS, but Thailand and the US signed an agreement eight years ago in which the Thais agreed to enforce FATCA. As a result, Thai banks are required to ask every person opening an account whether or not they are a "US person" for FATCA purposes. This recent email may be reaching out to folks who opened their accounts before 2016 and so never filled out those forms.

@Gary *********

The forms are for both FATCA and CRS. FATCA applies to "US persons" (which is actually a much broader category than just US citizens), but CRS applies to lots of other nationalities.